Deborah Ross: Food shows I’d like to see? How about The Bitterly Resentful Cook?

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The broadcaster David Attenborough has accused the BBC of making too many cookery shows at the expense of long-running landmark series on serious subjects, but he is wrong. He is a sage man and a man to be trusted, usually, but he is gravely mistaken here, and I am shocked.

I assumed that Attenborough, of all people, would know his history. Has he somehow forgotten the Great British Recipe Famine of 1845-1852 and the absolute devastation that caused? When, for want of recipes, millions of people died from staring at a nice piece of fish, for example, and not having